La Jolla needs a patrol dedicated to The Cove
It seems to me that the job of protecting humans and sea lions from each other should fall to the park rangers and/or lifeguards that are there for the purpose of making it safe for the public to enjoy La Jolla Cove (“La Jolla Town Council forum takes on human/sea lion quandary at The Cove,” Sept. 19, La Jolla Light).
An extra full-time dedicated park warden or lifeguard with the authority to keep people from getting too close to the sea lions would solve the problem.
How to pay for it? The federal government’s Marine Mammal Commission gives grants “that support projects aimed at meeting the conservation and protection goals of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.” Perhaps the city of San Diego could pursue a small grant to hire a full-time warden or lifeguard with a degree in marine biology and appropriate crowd-control training to patrol the area.
It would take political will on the part of the city and federal government to make it happen. Let’s not wait for a tragedy to occur before the problem is solved.
Andrew Shorenstein
Bumpy road makes for rough ride
Near the corners of Palomar Avenue, Winamar Avenue and La Jolla Boulevard there are bumps in the road at both corners that will knock your teeth out!
I am amazed the fire department hasn’t made an issue of this, as I am sure it can’t be good for a fully loaded firetruck bouncing over these bumps in the road. Or maybe they have and I am not aware of it.
I have reported this on the Get It Done app several times in the past few years and nothing has been done. It is just getting worse.
I just spoke to one of my neighbors and they, too, were complaining about how bad the road was getting.
Paul Magaudda
Closure of Scripps Coastal Reserve needs to end
The ongoing illegal closure of Scripps Coastal Reserve may have faded from the news because UC San Diego has dragged the California Coastal Commission process on for so long by repeatedly providing them with information contradicted by the commission’s own evidence (“Scripps Coastal Reserve hearing delayed further as Coastal Commission requests more information,” July 25, La Jolla Light).
But La Jollans should be reminded that the university is continuing with their pursuit of restricting historical public access to the Knoll and its associated Sumner Canyon trail to the beach. The Scripps Coastal Reserve Knoll is still closed over 99.7 percent of the time, with only docent-led tours allowed during a two-hour-per-month window (which is also no longer even advertised on the reserve’s locked gate), and UC San Diego is still seeking to make this closure permanent.
We are all paying the salary of Scripps Coastal Reserve staff, as they are government employees of the state of California. It is simply outrageous that our tax dollars have been used to violate the [California Coastal Act] and those responsible are not being held to account.
It is past time for UC San Diego to clean house and start obeying the law.
Frank Kunst
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